6 ways to avoid the college debt trap

In his recent New York Times article: “The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined”, author and senior director for post secondary education at the Center for American Progress, Ben Miller stated that one of America’s best investments in socioeconomic mobility — college — has become a debt trap for far too many. While I wholeheartedly agree with Miller, in my experience, it’s not just the students who are getting caught in this trap, it’s their parents as well.